First thing/last thing

The first and last thing I did today was to check out my old friend. In between I wandered around like a rather bewildered headless chicken. Anyone want six million light bulbs? A shed load of tin foil? A torch, or 20? Letters of dispute to anyone you may care to mention, preferably to any bumptious authority? Minutes of a multitude of committees ... day centres, fund raisers for a lifeboat, CHC’s, CAB’s ... it goes on.
This morning the high tide was right up the path.